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Census Tract · Ranked #65,414 of 84,120 nationally

Lake Helen Eviction Risk: Lower

Tract 12127091001 · Volusia, FL · pop 7,938 · 56% of tract blocks fall in Lake Helen

With a score of 3.1/10, tract 12127091001 in Lake Helen, FL reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 7,938 residents. Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 49.8% across Volusia County.

Risk score
3.1
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3% Stable renters 7% Owners 90%
Tract context
Occupied units2,536
Renter share10.4%
SVI overall0.43
Poverty rate14.6%
Median income$90,735

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Lake Helen
Moderate
Within county
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#87 of 129 tracts In Volusia
Low
Within state
31 th percentile
Rank, 31st percentileLowHigh
#3,550 of 5,122 tracts In Florida
Low
National
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#65,414 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lake Helen and the region

Centroid at 28.9852, -81.2196 · click any tract to drill in

Why Lake Helen scores 3.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Lake Helen
4.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.3
State political climate
Florida legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
14.6% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$1,476 rent vs county FMR
3.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lake Helen
4.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lake Helen
4.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lake Helen
4.6

How Lake Helen compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Lake Helen risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.1This tracttract 0910013.4Lake Helenparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county4.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 43

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 29Total filings over 3 yrs
  • 2.17%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.5%Peak (2016)
  • 9Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2016 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 12127091001
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Lake Helen

25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Pulling hardest the other way is state political climate at 1.5/10.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 29 filings here across 3 tracked years.

Against the Volusia County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2016, when 2.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.2% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 10% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

Statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure are inherited from Lake Helen rather than measured on these blocks; the economic and supply components are the tract-level part of the score. Social vulnerability reads 4.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the FL average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 12127091001

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 12127091001?

Census tract 12127091001 in Lake Helen scores 3.1/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 12127091001?

Median gross rent is $1,476/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 12127091001?

14.6% of residents in tract 12127091001 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,938.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 12127091001?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 43th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 64th, household 54th, minority 49th, housing 14th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 12127091001?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 29 eviction filings across 3 validated years in tract 12127091001 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.17% of renter households, peaking at 2.5% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

How does tract 12127091001 compare to Lake Helen overall?

Tract 12127091001 scores 3.1/10, lower than the parent city of Lake Helen at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lake Helen; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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